With so many different mobile platforms on the market, a new question has become increasingly relevant: how do brands design for individual mobile platforms? Traditionally, big brand names produce style guides for print and web. However, because the mobile market has grown in such an abrupt and divergent manner, most organizations have not yet produced similar style guides to suit individual mobile platforms. This becomes a real tug-of-war between clients and designers. Clients become attached to their branding, but mobile design is not a subset of web design, nor is it anything close to print.
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This is a pretty weak blog post, but I’m going to do it anyways. A while back I had been interviewed by CTV on what User Experience Designers do at Infusion, the company where I work. Anyways long story short, one of my30 under 30 goals (coming soon..maybe) was to be on TV, and I was – you can check it out here.
Hello all, I’m trying this new weekly Blend tip thing. These will be little tips and tricks that will hopefully alleviate some of the nuances and annoyances of Blend.
This week – Reset!
A lot of the time, Blend will set margins and odd settings automatically when you are doing edits on properties (width, height) or when you are dragging objects around the Artboard. A quick and easy way to see what’s going on is by looking at the little square that is next to every property.
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